VOL. XXXV.] PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. IQJ 



just between his fore leg and his breast, where, when the legs are distended, 

 the hair is much thinner than in some other places. 



Half an hour after the first bite, they took a second dog, which was some- 

 what less, and in like manner brought him over the snake, which in a very little 

 time bit his ear, so that they all saw it; he yelped very much, and soon showed 

 the signs of being very sick, holding that ear that was bitten uppermost. He 

 reeled and staggered about for some time; then fell down, and struggled as if 

 convulsed, and for two or three times got up, each time wagging his tail, 

 though slowly, and attempting to follow a negro boy, who used to make much 

 of him. We put him into a closet, and ordered the boy to look after him. 



About an hour after the second was bitten, they took the third dog in like 

 manner; the snake bit him on the right side of the belly, about 2 inches be- 

 hind the long ribs; for they saw he had drawn blood there. The dog at first, 

 for about a minute, seemed not to be hurt, so they let him go, being one they 

 could get again when they pleased. For that day they put up the snake, ima- 

 gining his poison was very near, if not quite expended. 



In a little time after, which was just 2 hours after the second dog was bitten, 

 the boy announced he was dead. About an hour after, this dog was opened, 

 when nothing uncommon appeared about the heart. Mr. Kidwell laid open the 

 scull, and was of opinion, that the brain was more red and swoln than any he 

 had ever seen; and a little while after, he said the blood turned very black. 



For that day they heard no more of the third dog which was bitten; but the 

 next morning the woman who owned him came to complain of our cruelty for 

 killing her dog. She did not know when he died, but said she saw him at 7 

 o'clock that evening, which was about 3 hours after he was bitten; and that 

 he was so sick he could scarcely wag his tail. None of these dogs were swoln 

 before they died. 



On the Saturday following, which was the 14th, they got two dogs, both as 

 large as common bull dogs. The first dog, which he bit on the inside of his 

 left thigh, died in half a minute exactly, in the opinion of two gentlemen, who 

 kept their watches in their hands all the while; there were two very small punc- 

 tures in his thigh, which looked livid, though no blood was drawn. This dog 

 did not swell for 4 hours after he was dead. 



The second dog was bftteti about an hour after the first, on the outside of his 

 thigh, where we perceived the blood at two places; he soon sickened, and died 

 m 4 minutes. 



Thinking the snake's poison was not spent, they got a cat, which he bit about 

 an hour after. The cat was very sick, and they put her up in a closet; by some 

 means the cat was let out in less than an hour and a half after she was bitten. 



